The after lunch talk on Business Scripting Languages, by Asuman Suenbuel and Murray Spork was something I found very hard to stay awake in. In fact, I think so did many others, some of whom walked out of the room.<\/p>\n
The first half of the talk was filled with SAP marketing spiel, something I think should sincerely stay away from conferences that are tech-oriented. When you hear a word like “SOA”, you already know you’re in the wrong talk. Greg the architect<\/a> video (link courtesy Leslie Wu<\/a>), now that was funny. Saving grace, and they do mention the movies are not from SAP. Figures. SOA is like a clothes wardrobe was the other video, with some somewhat hot looking girl – sure, again, saving grace.<\/p>\n Model-driven development (this is not UML – this is more like the Eclipise Modeling Framework, etc.) vs. Ruby Domain Specific Languages (DSL’s) [What is a DSL?<\/a>]. SAP utilizes a modeling framework (MOIN), and supports external DSLs (unlike Ruby where you’ve got an embedded\/internal DSL).<\/p>\n Ruby + SOA is about flexibility, is where they concluded off. I think thats an hour I’m never getting back, but thank goodness I have my laptop lying around and actually was getting other work done.<\/p>\n I was surprised that they never mentioned MaxDB<\/a> once. They do follow MySQL naming schemes, calling things “connectors” though.<\/p>\n More interestingly, was the video<\/a>, titled Rapidly prototyping web applications with d.mix<\/b>, presented by Leslie Wu<\/a>, from the Stanford HCI group on Ubicomp<\/a>. Its a cool mashup, and while I haven’t investigated Yahoo! Pipes yet, it looks like it just may be something similar, except that Ubicomp also supports hardware interfaces. Of course, the other thing about Ubicomp is that I can’t actually can’t test it. The publications on their website are worth a read though (see, I told you I found a use for the one hour wasted on SAP). Relevance to Ruby? They use it – Ubicomp is built with Ruby.<\/p>\n Technorati Tags: -EWASTEOFTIME<\/a>, sap<\/a>, soa<\/a>, ubicomp<\/a>, ruby<\/a>, svrc2007<\/a><\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>